For his son, the Ghanaian businessman, see John Addo Kufuor.
John Kufuor
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Kufuor in 2008
President of Ghana
In office 7 January 2001 – 7 January 2009
Vice President
Aliu Mahama
Preceded by
Jerry Rawlings
Succeeded by
John Atta Mills
5th Chairperson of the African Union
In office 30 January 2007 – 31 January 2008
Preceded by
Denis Sassou Nguesso
Succeeded by
Jakaya Kikwete
Member of Parliament for Atwima Nwabiagya
In office 24 September 1979 – 31 December 1981
In office 1 October 1969 – 13 January 1972
Personal details
Born
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor
(1938-12-08) 8 December 1938 (age 85) Kumasi, Colony of the Gold Coast
Political party
New Patriotic Party
Spouse
Theresa Mensah
(m. 1962; died 2023)
Relations
Kwame Addo-Kufuor (brother)
J. H. Mensah (brother-in-law)
Children
5
Alma mater
Osei Tutu Boarding School Prempeh College Lincoln's Inn Exeter College, Oxford
Profession
Lawyer
Businessman
Politician
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) [1] is a Ghanaian politician who served as the President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009.[2] He became the Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008 and his victory over John Evans Atta Mills at the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first transition of power in Ghana from a democratic government to another democratic government.[3]
Kufuor's career has been spent on the liberal-democratic[4] side of Ghanaian politics, in the parties descended from the United Gold Coast Convention and the United Party.[5]
As a lawyer and businessman, he was a minister in Kofi Abrefa Busia's Progress Party government[6] during Ghana's Second Republic, and a Popular Front Party opposition frontbencher during the Third Republic. In the Fourth Republic Kufuor stood as the New Patriotic Party's candidate at the 1996 election, and then led it to victory in 2000 and 2004. Having served two terms in power, he retired from politics in 2008. He is popularly known as the Gentle Giant.[7]
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leading rival being the centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC). JohnKufuor of the NPP was President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. At the elections...
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